performance
VERENA SCHNEIDER
20/09/2024, 7pm
Venue: philomena+, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
Verena Schneider, performance, photo: Ibrahim Dirani
As part of the opening of the exhibition Sense of Touch, Verena Schneider performed an engaging piece centered around natural materials. Created specifically for the pavement in front of the project space, the performance explores our relationship with natural materials and the idea of touch. After inviting the audience to focus on texture and the sensation of holding grains of sand in their hands, Verena Schneider performed with a bag of sand, blending acrobatics, circus arts, and dance.
artists
VERENA SCHNEIDER
(she/her, they/them) is an Austrian circus/dance maker, performer and artist based in Vienna. With a background in biology, circus arts, and choreography, their work explores the interplay between the body, materials, and environment. Through performances, video works, and installation as traces from performative actions they investigate themes of perception, origin, heritage and processes. Verena is co-founder of Kumquat Circus Company and the cultural association Freifall, and their work has been shown at venues such as WUK performing arts, Theater am Werk, Parallel Vienna, Premieretage Innsbruck and Latitude50.
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